well said Scott.

WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF ENACTMENT
*Insurance companies will be barred from dropping people from coverage when they get sick. Lifetime coverage limits will be eliminated and annual limits are to be restricted.
*Insurers will be barred from excluding children for coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
*Young adults will be able to stay on their parents’ health plans until the age of 26. Many health plans currently drop dependents from coverage when they turn 19 or finish college.

I don’t think you’re thinking this all the way through, which is why you keep getting ripped by all of these Omninerds and you’re making people that believe in God look like idiots.

I cannot tell what context you’re saying “prayer” in, and you haven’t defined what “God” you’re talking about.

I think it’s a bit premature to say that it’s “best on the market”. I has potential put it hasn’t withstood the test of millions of users. This is a first generation product. I think where companies continue to miss it is that they keep trying to find something that “beats” the iPhone, it won’t be until that stop paying attention to the iPhone that something truly superior can manifest itself. That’s what apple did. They said, “Forget about the keyboard” which completely ignored Blackberry which was the powerhouse at the time. When will companies finally get it?!!

AAC has MUCH better compression rates, I’ve used aac since it first came out. Saves me loads of HD space.

Okay so isn’t this whole conversation cynical?! Why do you persist on giving me such a hard time Occams. You know I have spent 43% of my time on Omninerd trying to explain and re-explain things to you?! Seriously, check my profile!

That being said, yes it was cynical, I’ll admit that, because ultimately I’m going to do what I want, and so will you, and so will everyone else, no one rarely follows the MOST rational path. That’s not the point though, is it?

I meant to say “would” instead of “who”

If that weren’t the case more people WOULD spend more time preparing

On the subject of procreation. I think it’s one of the most selfish and irrational acts that mankind engages in. Not ONE time have I ever heard someone having a child because they wanted to improve the quality of the next generation, or because they want to improve the world in some profound way. Like scottb said it’s usually as a result of giving in to that primitive desire to duplicate ones self, to have something on which to imprint his or hers stamp.

There are too many to count. We give in to our emotions regularly. More accurately, we give in to the emotional part of our brains regularly. There is a region of our brain (nested below our right and left lobes) that is primitive and impulsive. This portion of our brains is very clear on what it wants and doesn’t want…it is the trained areas of our brains the areas that hold information and ability for imagination that develop clear barriers to corral our primitive selves. By design, many aspects of our society developed to either widen or completely eliminate these barriers. Take marketing for instance, companies create a desire for many, many things that we simply don’t need. We don’t need the majority of the things that we have to survive or even be happy, but marketing as created a desire, which leads to a primitive “drive” for something we don’t need.

I agree with you whole heatedly Scott. The only reason I put Windows 7 on the list because it was in fact a highly influential tech “innovation”, probably the only reason why it had any influence in the first place is because of MS astronomical market share; they’re hard to ignore. I agree with your thoughts about wave which is precisely why it made the list. Wave has outstanding potential and scalability. Us tech guys are going to have to sell it to the lay user though.

6 – Google Wave

Google Wave may very well have been one of the greatest developments of the decade! In spite of the challenges that Google faces with marketing it as a viable network solution; and its potential to be integrated with Google’s Chrome OS. Google has created a solution that has essentially integrated everything we love about the net, email, chat, social media, and widgets into a system that not only connects the user with all sorts of information but also with other users, and it does it seamlessly and cross-platform. Google is putting themselves in an excellent position to become a choice medium on devises such as the much anticipated Apple Tablet . Look for this product to explode onto the market once all features are integrated and released.

I just listened to a sound bite of a KGO correspondent in a discussion with Ted Sorenson, President John F. Kennedy’s Special Counsel & Adviser when he was in the White House. A lot of disturbing facts were brought up centering on how curiously close we’ve come to nuclear war in the past. This includes the Cuban missile Crisis, and the conflict with th Soviet Union.

There was one circumstance Mr. Sorenson mentioned where a Soviet submarine equipped with a "nuclear missile" (which at the time had been unheard of) was underneath a fleet of US carriers. The entire Soviet crew was in agreement the sub should strike with the missile, and eventually convinced the captain. The only thing that kept them from acting was a command from a Soviet politician who happened to be on the sub. He insisted on getting clearance, which, at the time, was an impossibility because they were submerged.

During times of war or extreme stress can we be held liable for our actions? According to a new article from the Cornell International Law Journal there are fundamental differences in how the conscious and sub-conscious processes information. Our conscious mind is influenced by such factors as morality, emotion, and accountability … while our sub-conscious seems to rely on training, motive, and pure spontaneity. The real question is – is the total sum of who we are contained in our physical brains? Also, how much influence does the world around us have on the decisions we make?

I remember going through countless setups of the newest flavors of Linux during the blossoming stage of the open-source OS about 8 years ago. Among the many options for bleeding-edge file systems was the ReiserFS – known (at that time) for being just as unstable as it was revolutionary. As the years progressed I began to fall in love with it – its speed, its compatibility with other file systems, and its general bleeding-edge-cool factor. Many of these features are personified in Hans Reiser, the brains behind the ReiserFS. Unfortunately, over the past year or so, he’s been in litigation behind the disappearance of his wife, and within the last hour the verdict was released: Reiser is guilty.

I’ve always been critical of labels of any kind, (things like "Fundamentalist" , "Religiosity", "Liberal", etc.) where did we get the idea of a "cult" and who makes the rules for the label? What kind of relationship with a religion (or system of belief) is a "healthy" one? I think we all have the responsibility to challenge of any categorizations that we have in our minds, in doing so we give ourselves the opportunity to better define ourselves. What are some other thoughts on this?